Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-09
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Angelo MellflOs am Italian Boss, Probs
 ably Fatally Assaulted on Commerce Street-A SGilettO Does Deadly Work His Assailant Escapes After Rob- bfng Him and is StiH at Large-AR AccOmplice Arrested. "Mister, I am stabbedl' These were the words addressed to Officer Joseph Stewart as he stood on the corner of Congress avenue and Meadow street at about twenty minutes past nine o'clock last even ing. The officer turned and saw sight which he will not soon forget. Before him was an Italian who presented a most horrible spectacle.
 Blood was trickling from wounds in his ] body on to the walk where it formed into a pool of carmine His face was ashy pale and < in his hand he carried parcel, the contents of which he evidently had just purchased. It was completely saturated with blood as ! were all his garments. He walked with diff \ fculty.
 The officer asked him who did it. ooh, mister! He tried to rob me and then stabbed me with his stiletto," was the reply. 1 The officer from further inquiry learned ! that John Angelo Guadio, keeper of peanut stand at the corner of Meadow street and 1 Congress avenue, was the man who did the ! deed.
 l He then called for the police wagon. l A COURIER reporter, accompanied by Roundsman Mcbride, was walking up Con | gress avenue when Officer Stewart told his superior that man had been stabbed but he had taken care of everything. Roundsman Mcbride at once dispatched other officers to the scene and proceeded on his original er- ! rand.
 It was learned by the reporter that the \ deed had been committed near blacksmith ' shop on Commerce street near Whiting street. ! The injured man had walked from the scene | to Congress avenue and thence to Meadow street, leaving behind him a sickening trail of blood. Another distinct trail was made when he walked back to the police box with the officer
 | Shortly before the arrival of the wagon he \ suddenly became weak and fell to the ground.
 Some water was brought by 8 kind hearted Iaborer but it failed to revive him. The on-Iookers were certain he was dying. The officer called again for the wagon, which | seemed in this case to be slow in arriving.
 Three officers arrived with the wagon and the senseless Italian was lifted into the vehi cle and taken to the police office.
 "He will die before he gets there if he ain't dead now," was the common remark as | the wagon drove of.
 \ A mistake was evidently made in taking a
 man in his condition to the police office, for ten minutes later the wagon came down Church street again at breskneck speed on it's way to the hospital, where the man should have been receiving medical treatment fifteen minut,s earlier.
 | Lieutenant Wrinn at once took in the situ- ation when the wagon arrived at the police office and ordered the man taken where he
 could be properly cared for.
 | Orders were given with commendable | promptness by the lieutenant for general search for John Guadio the man who did
 the stabbing. Officer Stewart had reported
 that he could not be found on his beat where | the deed was done.
 ! All the patrolmen were given the Italians
 description and the officers at the steamboat
 docks and the depot were instructed to be on
 the lookout for Claudio.
 I The injured man, after having been proper ly cared for at the hospital, revived. It was
 found that three stab wounds had been in
 iicted. Two deep incisions were found un-
 der the left arm and another in the neck. He gave his name as Angelic Mellillo and
 his age as B years. He said he resided on
 Hill street. He then lapsed into uncon'
 seriousness again.
 | Interpreter Paul Pusso learned the story of
 the stabbing from Melliio when he revived.
 Mellilo, it seems, has charge of a number l of Italians who are at work on some eXcava- ! lLOll 1A0 hta9 SO hdfO pau GI1CAA OAA AoS' night, but he had nothing but large bills
 He told them that he would pay them this
 morning. He walked down Congress avenue
 where he purchased some articles. Neal ! Commerce street John Salvato called to him
 from across the street. Guadio then stepped up and asked Aellilo to walk down Commerct
 street with him. They had not gone fal | when Guadio accused Melilo of cheating hi:
 men. This the latter resented and as evi
 dence of his honesty pulled out his pocket book and showed the bills. Guadio thel I crew his stiletto and stabbed him.
 He tried to defend himself, but fell faint
 ing from the loss of blood. Guadio escaped : in the darkness.
 Salvato was arrested and will probably b. tried as party to the crime. The polic
 were searching all night for Guadio, but, t
 uss Lieutenant Wrinn's expression, Git i
 as hard to capture an Italian in this city as t.
 find needle in a haystack." MelliIo was lying in precarious condition
 at the hospital at late hour.
 Salvato formerly kept an Italian t'dive" ol
 Fair street near the bridge. It has beel
 raided by the police many times.